Leah Hope Biography
Leah Hope is an American Award-Winning Reporter/Anchor working for ABC 7 News, Chicago’s Number One station for news. She joined the station in the year 1997. Hope serves the station as a Special Investigations Reporter among other news stories.
Leah Hope Age
Hope likes to keep her personal life private hence has not yet disclosed the year and month she was born. It is therefore not known when she celebrates her birthday. However, she might be in her 40’s.
Leah Hope Height
Hope stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches tall.
Leah Hope Family
Hope has managed to keep her personal life away from the limelight hence she has not disclosed any information about her parents. It is also not known if Leah has any siblings.
Leah Hope Husband
Hope is married to Bryan Smith, a Chicago magazine writer and the couple resides in the Chicago area. It is not yet disclosed whether Hope and Smith have children.
Leah Hope Net Worth
Hope has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $5 Million which she has earned through her successful career as a reporter.
Leah Hope Salary
Hope earns an annual salary ranging between $ 45,000 – $ 110,500.
Leah Hope Career
Hope works for ABC 7 News in Chicago serving the station as an Investigative Reporter. Before joining ABC 7, She worked at KATU-TV, the ABC affiliate in Portland, Oregon. She anchored weekend evening newscasts and reported during the week at KATU-TV. Before, she held the same position at WISH-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana. Hope started her broadcasting career as a general assignment reporter at WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Maryland.
Her work covering troubles in the African American community has been venerated on both national and local levels. She won two awards from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) for reviews on a group of “Lost Boys” attacked by a Chicago gang and changes in the cosmetic industry that replicate the converting face of America. The NABJ Chicago Chapter offered Hope the 2003 Russ Ewing Excellence in Journalism Award and recognized her once more with the 2004 Excellence in Enterprise Journalism Award for a series of reports on affirmative action.
Hope earned an Emmy award for the half-hour primetime special, “9/11/02 The New Homeland. Hope has been awarded numerous Peter Lisagor Awards, given with the aid of the Society of Professional Journalists, for testimonies ranging from breaking news insurance to client and business reporting.
She was honored by way of the Chicago bankruptcy of the Council on Islamic American Relations with the 2007 Media Award for ethical reporting. Hope was venerated because of the 2013 recipient of the Diogenes Award for Excellence in media from the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois. Besides that, she gained an Emmy for reporting at some stage in the 2012 NATO Summit.
She is a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida. She is a Journalism Advisory Board member at Columbia College and belongs to several journalism organizations including the National Association of Black Journalists, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association, the National Academy of Television Arts American Women in Radio and Television, and Sciences.
When she is not working, her community involvement includes work in the arts. Leah is a member of the Leadership Advisory Council at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and Instituto Cervantes of Chicago. Hope’s charitable work took her to Minneapolis on a bicycle to participate in the 2001 Chicago AIDS Ride. Leah has been involved in several breast cancer awareness campaigns to promote early detection.
Leah Hope ABC7 Chicago
Hope is currently working at ABC7 Chicago where she works alongside other famous ABC7 Chicago anchors and reporters including;
- Rob Elgas
- Alan Krashesky
- Stacey Sager
- David Novarro
- Val Warner
- Paul Meincke
- Diane Pathieu
- Eric Horng
- John Garcia
- Michelle Gallardo
- Evelyn Holmes
- Jessica D’Onofrio
- Sarah Schulte
- Janet Davies
- John Idler
- Samantha Chatman
- Jason Knowles
- Chuck Goudie
- Larry Mowry
- Mark Rivera
- Stacey Baca
- Dionne Miller
- Phil Schwarz
- Karen Jordan
- Ravi Baichwal
- Roz Varon
- Tracy Butler
- Jim Rose
- Terrell Brown
- Hosea Sanders
- Tanja Babich
- Cheryl Scott
- Judy Hsu
- Mark Giangreco
- Cheryl Burton
- Eric Thomas
- Kristen Sze
- Sandhya Patel
- Dan Noyes
- Chris Nguyen
- Mike Nicco
- Dion Lim
- Jobina Fortson
- Liz Kreutz
- Spencer Christian
- Dan Ashley
- Larry Beil
- Reggie Aqui
- Chris Alvarez
- Kumasi Aaron
- Drew Tuma